Steam’s latest sensation is rife with bots and market manipulation.

A new title has surged to the top of the Steam charts, joining the ranks of classics like Counter-Strike 2, PUBG, and Dota 2. As of now, TBH: Task Bar Hero boasts around 518,000 concurrent players, according to SteamDB, making it the third most-played game on the platform. This fantasy-themed idler, where players deploy adventurers to gather loot, launched just a few weeks ago on May 27.

It’s quite rare for a new game to climb the rankings so quickly, but the situation becomes even more puzzling when you consider its reviews: only 3,699 users have rated it. For comparison, Dota 2, which has a similar player count, has nearly 830,000 reviews.

These figures raise eyebrows, and a likely explanation for the inflated player count is the presence of bots. Since the game is free-to-play and allows players to earn items that can be sold on the Steam Community Market, it’s likely that many are using bots to farm these items. While most items on the market sell for mere cents, some rarer ones have fetched between $20 and $30.

In recent years, several idle games that support the Steam Community Market have climbed to the top, such as Banana, a clicker game focused on earning bananas, and Bongo Cat, which continues to thrive with over 100,000 concurrent players. These games enable players to earn items and then trade them for Steam funds. As a developer of Banana once noted, it’s a legal “infinite money glitch.”

However, TBH hasn’t performed as well in user reviews compared to other idle games. While 96% of players recommend Bongo Cat, only 48% feel the same about TBH. Players have voiced concerns that bots have disrupted the game’s marketplace, that bugged chests fail to provide loot, and that ranged characters are currently overpowered. Another significant issue arises when players run another game simultaneously with TBH, which can trigger the game’s anti-cheat software and result in a permanent game-ban warning on their Steam profile.

The developers of TBH disclosed that Valve compelled them to implement changes after the game placed excessive strain on Steam’s servers. Now, only specific high-level items can be listed on the marketplace. Despite this adjustment, the game’s player numbers remain robust. If there weren’t already enough speculative markets for players to navigate, Steam games have certainly opened up a bold new frontier in that arena.